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In 18th-century Lancashire, a poor schoolteacher named John Collier reinvented himself as "Tim Bobbin," a cartoonist whose illustrations mocked the absurdities of society. Collier died in 1786 with only £50. His gravestone epitaph, written by ...

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A Singapore judge has ordered Ms Sophia Wu Chao Wen to pay S$25,000 (US$19,500) to a Taiwanese produce distributor for making disparaging comments about its vegetables, reports Channel News Asia. In 2022, Ms Wu posted: "It's shocking, seriously, that ...

Peter Mandelson has a long history performing the "gray eminence" gigs of British politics, and his closeness to billionaire sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein brings an early end to the latest. After the publication of records detailing Mandelson and ...

DJ Tenderloin just released five mixtapes themed around the original Planet of the Apes movie. The tapes include Planet of the Apes movie clips, dialogue, and vintage content like trailers and toy commercials. Listen to all five tapes on Mixcloud. --

If you're a diplomat, journalist, vocal activist, politician, or anyone else with the potential to stir the pot, the odds are pretty good that you're currently being watched by the United States government or an enterprise that has skin in the ...

In 1978, Clive James reviewed the official biography of Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1964 to 1982) by the Institute of Marxism-Leninism, CPSU Central Committee. "I read the whole thing from ...

Charlie Kirk said that he didn't care for the concept of empathy and that he was fine with a few folks getting shot if it meant protecting the Second Amendment. But according to DC Comics, that doesn't mean you can say mean things about him after he ...

Do you remember how none of the weapons the United States Air Force had could crash the shields baked into alien spacecraft in Independence Day? Pepperidge Farms space aliens do. Worse, they seem to have the technology to make the feat possible ...

Officials in East Hartford, Connecticut, don't know who is painting the squirrels there. But they'd like it to stop. "We've gotten a report about two squirrels that appear to have been painted in the area of Naubuc Ave. and High St," the town's ...